Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 2 | Like Michael Jackson , Madonna and George Michael before her , Kylie chose the world 's second most important pop market to launch herself on a planet desperate to see her perform . |
| 3 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 4 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 5 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 6 | What 's the strangest place you have ever woken to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 7 | Where would you most like to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 8 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 9 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 10 | He spoke as man to men , dominating them with his prestige , without trying to put himself on a lower level , as do those who form a false picture of the people . |
| 11 | Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the epistolatory novel by Choderlos de Laclos about sexual gamesmanship among the French aristocracy in the closing decades of the ancient regime , DANGEROUS LIAISONS revolves around the schemes of the malicious , intelligent salon hostess Madame de Merteuil ( Glenn Close ) to revenge herself on a fallen lover by arranging the seduction of his virgin bride . |
| 12 | Whatever else he might be , instinct told her Nicolo Sabatini was not a man to force himself on a woman . |
| 13 | So you 've got to present yourself on a business level . |
| 14 | This would require companies to be able to merge across frontiers and be able to organize themselves on a Europe-wide basis without discrimination . |
| 15 | He directed Cleo and Dauntless to seat themselves on a bench at the table . |
| 16 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 17 | She has yet to prove herself on a large stage . |
| 18 | Too dark , too dangerous , said Antoinette : easy to cut yourself on a broken wine bottle or get your frock filthy with cobwebs and dust . |
| 19 | And now you 're trying to choke yourself on a drink of juice . |
| 20 | These may consist of able musicians who are unwilling or unable to commit themselves on a regular basis . |